The
Continental Market is coming to Market Square, Wick, Caithness for a 3 day
event starting on Friday 27 August. Traders will be selling food from
various different countries including olives, tomatoes, fruit, chocolate,
cheese and bread, not forgetting wine and cider. There will also be
handbags, pottery and jewellery. Various musical entertainment will be
played for the 3 days.

The event is being held as part of the
Lower Pulteneytown bicentennial celebrations and to coincide with this
there will be musical entertainment, dancers, a barbecue, boat trips and
stalls at the harbour on the afternoon of Saturday 28 August.

To
help eager shoppers get to Wick from the various places there is buses
leaving Inverness at 0800 on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 picking up at
Invergordon, Tain, Dornoch, Golspie, Brora, Helmsdale and various pick up
stops in Caithness. Buses will return leaving Safeway, Wick at 1700 and
arriving back in Inverness at 1945. For further details and to purchase
tickets please call Mick Broad or Carol Smith, Planning & Development
Service, The Highland Council, 34A High Street, Wick, Caithness (Tel 01955
605858).

People in Orkney can also benefit from
the market. Pentland Ferries are leaving St Margaret’s Hope at 1200 on
both 28 and 29 August and returning from Gills at 1845. A coach will be
available to and from Wick on both days. The ferry will also be operating
on Friday 27 but a coach link will not be available. Prices are £20.00 for
Adults and £10.00 for children (5-16 years old). For the purchase of
tickets please call 01856 831226 and quote ‘Continental Market’.

The
local stallholders will be there on Saturday 28th. Guy and
Shar Nyhuis from Llandrinio, Powys run the continental market and
organise the different stalls from Italy, France, Holland, Germany,
Belgium, Austria and various other countries to be at all the different
places. The market takes place in Inverness twice a year and is also held
in Perth and Edinburgh to name but a few places.

As this event is actually part of the
Lower Pulteneytown Bicentennial Celebrations we are holding an event with
musical entertainment and various stalls at the Fish Market at the harbour
during the afternoon of Saturday 28th. The stalls will be in
aid of the Community Memorial Garden at Bank Row.

A ceildh is to be held at 9.00PM also on
Saturday 28th in the Pipe Band Hall. Wolfwind, David Nicol &
Addie Harper, Caithness Handbell Ringers, the Wick Pipe Band and other
guests are to participate.